FACULTY AND STAFF
CRRID staff, inclusive of those in the Population Research Center (PRC), consists of employees in five main sections namely, Research, Administration, Support services (Library and Computers), Estate and Publications. Besides the core staff, there is also project specific staff, which is employed in the time bound research and intervention projects carried out by the Centre. The diverse background of research faculty at CRRID reflects the multidisciplinary orientation of research and action programmes at the Centre and is national in character. The Centre has a competitive and scientific system of recruitment into academic positions that are filled through open nationwide advertisements. A flexible system of promotion and performance assessment is adopted at the Centre, and the compensation packages to the staff are comparable to the best in academic sphere. The present academic structure at the Centre is organised into different levels and the core faculty is divided into four main categories namely, the Research Coordinator (RC), Associate Research Coordinator (ARC) and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) and Research Fellow (RF) equivalent to Professor, Associate Professor/Reader, Senior Lecturer, and equivalent to Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the University Grants Commission (UGC) grades respectively.
Executive
Vice-Chairman
Rashpal Malhotra
Honours in Urdu, M.A. (Public
Administration),
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Conferred upon by the Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea.
Founder Director of the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial
Development (CRRID), Chandigarh. Mainly responsible towards CRRID being
accorded the “National Status” in 1985 by the Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD), Government of India, New Delhi. Setting up Population
Research Centre (PRC) at CRRID by the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Government of India at CRRID. Through his efforts CRRID was
granted special consultative status by the Economic and Social Council,
United Nations, New York in February, 2005.
Areas of Specialization:
Rural and Industrial Development, Democratic Decentralization, Public
Affairs, Political Processes, Banking and Academic Administration
Director-General, CRRID
and Hony. Director,
Population Research Centre at CRRID
Sucha Singh Gill
M.A. (Economics), Ph.D., Punjabi University, Patiala
Former Professor & Head, Department of Economics, Punjabi University,
Patiala
Former Dean, Academic Affairs, Dean, Social Sciences and Dean
Research, Punjabi University, Patiala
Vice-President of Indian Association of Social Science Research
Institutions (IASSI), Elected President for Annual Conference for Indian
Society of Labour Economics.
Areas of Specialization: Development Economics, International Economics, Punjab Economy.
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RESEARCH FACULTY ^TOP
Professor-cum-Director
Kuldip Kaur
M.A.(History), M.Ed., Ph.D., Panjab University, Chandigarh
Areas of Specialization: Policy Education: Higher, Rural, Religious
Minorities and Literacy. Reproductive Child Health Care, Capacity Building
in Panchayati Raj Institutions, Monitoring, Field Based Action
Programmes and Surveys.
P.P. Balan (on deputation to KILA)
M.A. (History
& English),
Ph.D.
Former
Director,
Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA),
Thrissur (Kerala);
Earlier
Head of
the P.G. Department of History, C.A.S. College, Maduri.
Areas of Specialization:
Decentralised Planning.
Professor
Aswini Kumar Nanda, Senior Research
Officer (SS), PRC
M.A.(Economics), Utkal University,
Bhubaneswar; M.Phil, JNU, New Delhi;
Ph.D., International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai; M.Sc. (Demography), University of London, London.
Areas of Specialization: Fertility, Family Planning, Ageing and Migration.
Professor Nehru-SAIL Chair
Ranjit Singh Ghuman
M.A. (Economics), M.Phil., Ph.D., Punjabi University, Patiala
Former Professor & Head,
Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala
Former Dean
College Development Council, Punjabi
University, Patiala
Former Vice-President, Indian Society of Labour Economics.
Areas of Specialization:
Punjab Economy, WTO and
Global Economy and South Asian Economy.
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Chairman, Editorial Board, Man and Development
Salman
Haidar
Chairman
Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India,
New Delhi.
Principal Programme Advisor
Areas of Specialization:
Ethnicity and Partition Related Peace Process.
Senior Advisors
S.K.
Mangal
Former Founder Managing Director, Punjab State Electronics Development
Corporation, Chandigarh.
Senior Advisor
Areas of Specialization:
Industrial and Technology Transfer, Management,
Information Technology including e-Governance.
J.P.
Gupta
Former Financial Commissioner and Former Chairman, Finance Commission,
Punjab
Senior Advisor and Honorary Director, Urban Governance and Development
Areas of Specialization:
Fiscal and Financial Management,
Resource Generation in Urban Local Bodies, Urban Governance and
Management.
Paramjit
S. Sahai
Former High Commissioner of India to Malaysia and former Ambassador
of India to Sweden.
Senior Advisor
Areas of Specialization:
International Relations, Peace and Diplomacy
and Indian Diasporas.
Visiting Professors
Bharat Wariavwalla
Honorary Faculty of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi.
Areas of Specialization:
Nationalism, Security Policy.
Biswajit Chatterjee
Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University,
Chair-in-Charge, Planning and Development Unit and Dean Faculty of Arts,
Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
Areas of Specialization:
International Economics, Development Economics and Macro Economics.
Visiting Fellow
Col. (Retd.) Subbash Bakshi
Areas of Specialization:
Rural
Development, Social Development and Social Welfare.
Associate Research Coordinators
Unmesh
S. Rangnekar
M.A. (Economics), Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla; PGDIT
Areas of Specialization: Rural Development and Capacity Building in Panchayati Raj Institutions.
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal,
Senior Research officer, ( PRC)
M.A.(Economics), M.Phil,
Ph.D., LL.B.,
Post Graduate Diploma in Health, Family Welfare and Population Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Areas of Specialization: Health Economics, Service Dynamics and Programme
Evaluation.
Sunil Bansal
M.A. (Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh
Areas of Specialization: Rural Development and Agriculture.
Bindu
Duggal
M.A (Sociology), M.Phil, Ph.D., Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Areas of Specialization: Urban Studies and Social Development with reference
to Gender Studies, Children Education and Child Labour.
Sukhwinder
Singh
M.A.(Economics), M.Phil, Punjabi University, Patiala
Areas of Specialization:
Rural Development and Capacity Building in Panchayati Raj Institutions, Agriculture and Evaluation Studies.
Pawan Kumar Sharma, Senior Research officer, (PRC)
M.A.(Geography), M. Phil., Ph.D., Panjab University, Chandigarh, Post Graduate
Diploma in Health, Family Welfare and Population Education.
Areas of Specialization: Population Development and Family Planning Programme Assessment.
Senior Research Fellows
Manoj
Kumar Teotia
M.A., M.Phil. (Sociology), Panjab University, Chandigarh; MA
(European Masters in Comparative Urban Studies), University of Urbino
(Urbino) and University of Milano Bicocca (Milan), Italy
Areas of Specialization:
Urban Studies, Governance, Social Development, Democratic
Decentralization, Municipal Finance, Poverty and Environmental
Infrastructure..
Research Fellows
Poonam Kaushik,
Research Officer, (PRC)
M.Sc.(Statistics), B.Ed. Panjab University, Chandigarh; Post Network Computing (NIIT).
Diploma in Human Rights, Diploma in HIV and Family Education, IGNOU, New Delhi.
Areas of Specialization:
Impact Assessment and Multivariate Analysis.
Madan Mohan
Singh
M.A.
(Economics), Magadh University, Magadh.
Areas of Specialization:
Large Scale Surveys and Data Management.
Neetu
Gaur
M.A. (Economics), Ph.D., Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Areas of Specialization: Development Economics.
Shaik Iftikhar Ahmed, Research officer, (PRC)
M.Sc., Ph.D. (Geography), Punjabi University, Patiala.
Areas of Specialization: Reproductive and Child Health and Disaster Management.
Research Scholars/Investigator/Assistants
Manisha
Bhatia
M.Sc, Ph.D (Home Science Extension Education), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
Areas of Specialization: Women and
Child Health and Women Empowerment.
Sunil Agnihotri
M.A (Geography)
Areas of Specialization: Health and Family Welfare.
Field Assistants
JR. Field Investigators
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES ^TOP
Meena Jatana
Deputy Librarian,
B.Sc.
(Medical), M.A.
(Pub. Adm.), M.Lib.Sc, Panjab University,
Chandigarh.
Areas of Specialization:
Library Management and Information Services.
Sukhwinder
Randhawa
Assistant Librarian,
M.A. (Political Science), M.Lib. & Inf. Sc, GNDU, Amritsar; M.Phil
(LIS), MKU, Madurai.
Areas of Specialization:
IT Applications in Library, Web Designing, Open Source Softwares (OSS).
Ashok
Kumar
Library Assistant
Matric, Diploma in Library Science
Harsh
Rawat
Library Attendant
10+2, Diploma in Library and
Information Science
DATA PROCESSING SERVICES ^TOP
Sanjay
Gupta
Computer Programmer,
M.A. (Honor School in Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh; PGDCA,
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; PGADM, PGDHRD, IGNOU, New Delhi.
Areas of Specialization: Data Analysis and IT Enabled Services.
Ashwani
Kumar Sharma
Sr. Computational Assistant,
PGDCA, Uptron APCL, Cert-in-Internet & Web Page Designing, RCC,
Chandigarh.
Anita
Gupta
Sr.
Computational Assistant,
Cert-in-Computer Operations, RCC, Chandigarh.
Praveen
Negi
Computational Assistant,
B.A., Dip. in Computer Applications.
Hem Singh
Computer Operator
B.A., PGDCA
Jagtar
Singh
Sr.
Data Punch Operator
B.A., Dip. in Office Automation.
Bindu Sharma
Sr.
Data Entry Operator
M.A.(Hindi), PGDCA.
PUBLICATIONS
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Bhupinder Brar
Editor
(Man & Development)
M.A.
(Political Science), Panjab University, Chandigarh; Ph.D., JNU,
New Delhi
Peofessor of Political Science, Panjab University,
Chandigarh
Hony. Director, ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre,
Chandigarh
Areas of Specialization:
International Relations
(Special focus on South Asia, Indian Foreign Policy, former Soviet
Bloc), Political Philosophy.
Suman Khosla
Editorial
Research and Publication Officer,
M.A.
(History), B.Lib.Sc., Panjab University, Chandigarh; LLB
Areas of Specialization:
History, Culture and Information
Sciences.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
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Pratipal Kaur Real
Secretary of the Society of the Centre,
Non-member Secretary of the Governing Body,
Establishment Officer of
the Centre,
B.A., LLB, Panjab University, Chandigarh;
Areas of Specialization:
Research Administration, Coordination and Management
of Secretarial Services.
Sandipan
Sharma
Accounts Officer
B.Com
(Hons), PGDMSM
Areas of Specialization:
Financial and Accounting Service.
Rajesh
Sharma
Project Administrative Officer
B.A, 2 years Electronic Application Course, PC Course in Computers from
RCC, Chandigarh
Areas of Specialization:
Management, Coordination of Project Development
and Implementation Programme.
P.L. Passi
Construction and Maintenance Engineer
S.K Sharma
Project Superintendent
Rajan Thomas
Private Secretary to Director-General
Meenal Barua
Private Secretary to Executive
Vice-Chairman
B.Com., Delhi University, Delhi
Aarti Sood
Stenographer
(Senior Scale)
Gursharan
Kaur
Clerk-cum-Typist
Anita Kesar
Clerk-cum-Typist
Suresh
Kumar
Store-cum-Hospitality Assistant
Braham Singh
E&D Machine Operator